anaheim-gazette 1943-03-04

B and C Gas Cards Renewable By Mail Announcement has been made by OPA regional officials in San Francisco that motorists holding B and C gasoline rations may now obtain renewals by mail rather than by appearing personally before their local War Price and Rationing boards. This simplified method of obtaining renewals applies also to gasoline-powered farm equipment and industrial machinery. Under the new plan, rationing boards will mail renewal application forms to holders of B, C, E and R ration holders some time before their present rations expire. This is a new form to take the place of the present renewal certificate which was attached to the original application Haster Is Named Shrine Ambassador Reappointment of Thomas Haster of Route 4, Anaheim, as potentate's ambassador to Anaheim has been announced by Dr. Albert R. Martin, newly elected potentate of Al Malaikah Shrine, according to the Shrine recorder, Ernest L. Hurst. Ambassador Haster will soon take part in a general meeting of all ambassadors of Al Malaikah's jurisdiction, to confer with Dr. Martin on plans whereby Al Malaikah can contribute to the 1943 war effort. Elimination of nickel and substitution of zinc in the new five-cent piece is expected to save for war industry use, a full 300 tons of the critically needed nickel. Classic Casual Coats For Spring Smart coats like this are the type that every woman wants and needs in her springtime wardrobe — to harmonize with her dress fashions. Choose from plaids, tweeds and light pastel shades. Swagger and fitted styles These classic models are so wearable—Come in and see them today. $14.95 up Suggestions Given Victory Gardeners On Varied Matters "Orange county soils are generally good garden soils and we respond to fertilizer treatment today stated Harold E. Wahlberg county farm advisor, in reference to the plan to establish 15 Victory Gardens in Orange county this year. He pointed out that well rotated barnyard manure or compost leaf mold provides one of the best sources of complete fertilizer such gardens. It supplies organic matter, nitrogen and other elements that improve soil texture and add essential plant food elements. Its humus content improves the moisture hold capacity of the soil. A garden plot approximately 20 by 30 feet would require half this amount of poultry manure, broadcast over the ground and spaded in. Among other suggestions made by Wahlberg was that gardeners should buy sturdy cabbage, cerys and tomato plants from garden supply houses rather than tempt to grow them from seed which requires experience. He ever lettuce, chard and such vegetables are easily grown from seed. "Plant as thinly as possible," advised. "When plants are thick, transplant them and have a succession of crops, as the tra AS THE TIDE of battle is slowly but surely turning...as victory seems almost within our grasp, let us consider the plight of our United Nations Allies. Fire, famine and disease stalk the vast area from the Arctic to the Southern seas, from the Asiatic Pacific to the European Atlantic. More than 6,000,000 husbands, fathers and sons have been killed in battle; 75,000,000 have been uprooted from their homes; 5,000,000 children have been orphaned...in our United Nations. These facts stun all human comprehension...yet they tell only a part of the drama of human suffering behind the resistance of our courageous Allies. Let's Face These Facts During the first 10 months of war we were badly beaten...for months after Pearl Harbor our entire Pacific coast was pitifully vulnerable to invasion by Japan. The reason we were not actually invaded was not our defenses...we virtually had none...it was because our courageous Ally China was successfully holding an army of 1,000,000 Japs that otherwise could have been released for an attack on us right here in Southern California. After five and a half years of the most cruel, most exhausting kind of warfare, China still holds out against our common enemy along a 2000-mile front...her army of 4,000,000 seasoned troops is gradually taking the offensive...moving forward daily to recapture new strategic bases...eventual stepping stones to by side with war we might Britain has jaws of defiance placable deter inspiration to dom dear. They Little Hope exile...he Nazi dominates hordes of smug fighting with helping Macaulay Fighting Free people and the standing by to take their thousands of France await vasion shall civilization both German one of the epiphanies first to feel...first to surrender dom...the large in coupe men, while cessantly for liberation. The reason we were not actually invaded was not our defenses... we virtually had none... it was because our courageous Ally China was successfully holding an army of 1,000,000 Japs that otherwise could have been released for an attack on us right here in Southern California. After five and a half years of the most cruel, most exhausting kind of warfare, China still holds out against our common enemy along a 2000-mile front... her army of 4,000,000 seasoned troops is gradually taking the offensive... moving forward daily to recapture new strategic bases... eventual stepping stones to Tokyo. Homes, Factories, Fields Destroyed Russia, after more than two years of unprecedented privation and suffering... her richest lands invaded, her homes, factories and fields destroyed... now recoils with indomitable will and almost superhuman courage to throw the Nazis back... destroy millions of troops... demoralize the greatest military machine in history... and bring funereal gloom and despair to Berlin. Made Magnificent Stand for Civilization Britain... she who stood alone and virtually defenseless after Dunkirk... who made the magnificent and successful stand for civilization during the zero hour of the Battle of Britain... who went to work amid the devastation of relentless bombing to match us man for man, ship for ship and plane for plane... who was ready with Montgomery and his men to throw back the "invincible" Rommel at the very gates of Alexandria... is today planning and fighting side GIVE ONCE FOR ALL! United We Conquer This advertisement is a direct appeal to you by the United Nations War Relief Committee for Southern California with the cooperation of your passport. Respond promptly and you will not only save the time and effort of your local organizations and your hard working neighbors, but you will make possible the most economical campaign ever presented in this community. Give and give now, consistent with your conscience. This Will Be the ONLY Appeal for 1943 Funds by Any of These Relief Agencies This Campaign Officially Approved by President Roosevelt's War Relief Control Board ... State Department License No. 553 UNITED NATIONS WAR RELIEF 712 UNION BANK BLDG. • LOS ANGELES, CALIF. • TRinity 1285 Greyhound Asks Cooperation In All Bus Travel Pointing out the continued need for cooperation of the traveling public in order that military personnel on leaves and furloughs may be able to travel, F. W. Ackerman, vice president of Pacific Greyhound lines, today made the following statement: "The primary wartime job of bus lines is moving the Armed Forces, workers in war plants, farmers and others carrying on essential wartime activities. The rest of the public should give special consideration to the large number of men in uniform who desire to travel by bus on leaves and furloughs. "Week-ends are often the only time when these men from the military camps and bases can travel. If the general public will take their necessary bus trips during mid-week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) they will be helping these men in the Armed Forces, and at the same time they too will enjoy better service. "Other ways in which travelers can cooperate to make their bus riding more comfortable include: Keeping baggage to a minimum, purchasing tickets in advance to avoid the last minute rush, and consulting a bus agent well ahead of departure time for helpful advice on schedules and connections." British cash purchases of essential war items in the United States already have exceeded seven billion dollars, almost equal to the cumulative value of all Lend-Lease aid extended by the United States. What is this thing called "inflation?" Yes, I know that when you go to the store and what you want costs more than you can afford, perhaps more than you have to spend, that's inflation. And when the price is so much this week, and so much plus so much next week, that's inflation. In reality, those are surface indications. Inflation is the result of too few things to buy for too much money to spend. When the nation takes then you have started the inflation spiral under which the er insists that his pay goes because the prices of the th buys went up, upon which seller or the grower insist higher prices because wage up. There is no end to that except collapse. Who suffers by inflation? On fixed incomes suffer fine school teachers, the me women on pensions and a BE YOUR CHILDREN The Grace of God Fighting Allies by side with us to turn the tide of battle in a war we might have lost. Like China and Russia, Britain has fought her way back from the very jaws of defeat. Her calm confidence, her implacable determination under fire, should be an inspiration to all who hold democracy and freedom dear. They Have Been Fighting Our Fight Little Holland ... her proud government in exile ... her homeland crushed by the heel of Nazi domination ... her colonies overrun by hordes of smirking Japs ... still has an army fighting with us ... planes and ships and men helping MacArthur in the South Pacific. The Fighting French ... with their homeland, their people and their fleet in enemy hands ... were standing by ready to march from Lake Chad ... to take their place on the Tunisian front just as thousands of Frenchmen now held captive in France await their cue when the moment of invasion shall arrive. Little Greece ... cradle of civilization ... whose magnificent challenge of both German and Italian aggression will live as one of the epics in all history. Poor Poland ... first to feel the force of Hitler's heinous blitz ... first to sacrifice herself for liberty and freedom ... these little countries, small in size but large in courage, continue to give us fighting men, while their civilians work and plan increasingly for the day of their and our eternal liberation. Civilian Aid Desperately Needed What is this thing called "inflation?" Yes, I know that when you go to the store and what you want costs more than you can afford, perhaps more than you have to spend, that's inflation. And when the price is so much this week, and so much plus so much next week, that's inflation. In reality, those are surface indications. Inflation is the result of too few things to buy for too much money to spend. When the nation takes its factories to produce war material, instead of autos, and radios, and clothing; and when fields are given to rubber or to airports or dirigible bases instead of food, and when administrative agencies of government delay decisions beyond planting time, and fail to recognize needs for equipment and labor, while at the same time many men and women are earning, in the war industries, more than they earned before, then no social theory and no economic platitude will escape the incontrovertible fact that inflation is not merely imminent, but is here. When one group of workers insists that each rise in prices must of necessity mean a rise in wages, NUMBER 2 OF A SERIES YOUR WARTIME Gas Kitchen Counselor How to stretch your 48 ration-points and still serve nutritious meals You may rub your eyes a bit this first week or two of food rationing, but it's true—there are two “prices” on that can of peaches there on the grocer’s shelf these days, one price in cold, hard cash and another in ration points. So now in addition to the old familiar problem of making your cash money go as far as possible you'll need to find ways of stretching your ration-point “money,” too. And it's an art! If you invest a coupon then you have started the inflation spiral under which the insists that his pay goes because the prices of the thieves went up, upon which seller or the grower insist higher prices because wages up. There is no end to that except collapse. Who suffers by inflation? On fixed incomes suffer fine school teachers, the men women on pensions and ties; workers on salaries wages which are not enough to change with prices; all the great middle of the nation. Next come the men and women who work with hands and who now have confidence that increases in own pay scales will protect Somewhere in there the take the blow, but they would still be eating temp even though they would future of mass foreclosure readjustment. What is the outcome? A munal system under which barter what we have for w other fellow has? A complete lapse of the nation's financial integrity? The substitution of alternate kind of current Germany substituted the mark, and the travel-mart the trade-mark, for the old The collapse of the Republic the substitution of some free national socialism? Or the intelligent coordination NOW known methods to prevent least control, inflation? The answers at the moment We will have to have the aid of inflation now evident need have no more. To save the farmer is to be charged inflation because he asks that production, instead of a centive payment," which retary says was simply a term contrived to make it a little better than "subsidy miss the point entirely." inflation is already here; ask the farmer to stand in line a handout, instead of the admission that we missed boat, and will try not to mis one, is no cure. We can avoid an issue b sion, or we can meet it sq If milk is to be pegged at a tuber price, then peg the tuient costs to correspond. land is to be taken for g Civilian Aid Desperately Needed These are the seven United Nations for whom this appeal is made. All of them have suffered untold privations lest the torch of freedom be extinguished, lest democracy perish. These countries have been fighting our fight from the very beginning... are fighting it now. Had it not been for them we fortunate Americans would not now be remote from actual battle fronts... nor would we enjoy our present security... free from the horrors of war. Sure, we are feeling the pinch of war, too, but we are doing it the easy way. It is easier to give a dollar than a son... easier to go without luxury than without food. We can't... you can't... let United Nations War Relief be another "too little... too late" enterprise. Make your contributions now... and big. Give once for all. Do your part right now... today. Fill out the coupon below. UNITED NATIONS WAR RELIEF 712 Union Bank Building Los Angeles, California Ben R. Meyer, Treasurer I subscribe the sum of $___ to aid the suffering civilians of our Allies. (Unless I specifically designate otherwise in the space below, I understand that my donation will be allocated among the 7 participating agencies.) NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE Checks should be made payable to United Nations War Relief, and sent to Ben R. Meyer, treasurer, 712 Union Bank Building, Los Angeles, California, Contributions are deductible for income tax purposes so the number and to the agent provided by law. Keep a record of this donation for income tax purposes. SOUTHERN COUNTIES GAS COMPANY WARTIME GAS COOKING SAVES VITAMINS AND MINERALS So now in addition to the old familiar problem of making your cash money go as far as possible you'll need to find ways of stretching your ration-point "money," too. And it's an art! If you invest a coupon in a can of peaches, for example, instead of using it all at one time in just one dessert—you'll be ration-wise to make it do for several. Since variety is so important, you might first try a peach shortcake—then a couple of days later use the rest of the peaches in tapioca, brown betty or an upside down cake. That's stretching—combining a rationed food with other foods that are non-rationed. Just as you "stretch a point," you can stretch your vitamins, and minerals, too, by not wasting them. If you are going to use only a portion of a can of peas, heat just the part you need, quickly setting the rest of them in their original container, covered, in the refrigerator. How you heat the peas is important, too, in this fine art of stretching food values. Like all canned foods, they are already cooked and really cooking them again results in heavy loss of nutritive value. Ten per cent of your life in War Bonds will help build the planes and ships that will insure defeat and aid his Axis partner. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Extracts from files of The Gazette Issued Half a Century and a Quarter ago. These files contain the only Authentic History in Print of the Daily Doings of the Citizens of Anaheim and Orange County in the Days of the Pioneers. 25 Years Ago March 7, 1918 The rains have slowed up shipping only 182 cars of oranges having been shipped the past week as against 365 cars in the previous week. The offerings in all markets have been extremely light for the past week, and the demand for California oranges far exceeds the supply. The base hospital unit organized in Los Angeles by Dr. Rae Smith has an Orange county girl as its chief nurse. She is Miss Sue Dauser of Fullerton who was chief nurse at the California hospital in Los Angeles when she enlisted to go to France. She was one of the first if not the first to wear the new official uniform for the American nurses. Miss Dauser is a member of a well known northern Orange county family. She gave up her studies at Stanford University to become a nurse, and was among the first to volunteer when the Rae Smith hospital unit was being organized in Los Angeles. William Jerome was mingling with the crowd of boosters over from Santa Ana Wednesday evening to attend the associated meeting and banquet. Mr. Jerome is now county auditor and is looking after the political fences preparatory to the fall election sweepstakes. A. S. Bradford of Placentia, chairman of the committee of the Associated Chambers of Com- 50 Years Ago March 9, 1893 Three inches of rain have fallen for the storm. Up to yesterday at noon 2.98 had been registered by Mr. Dickel's gauge, making the total for the season 12.41 inches. Yesterday afternoon the weather was showery and last evening indications were good for an all night downpour. Crops are looking superb. In fact there was never a season in which the cereals promised so well. The vast grain field that stretches from Olinda to Whittier, covering the La Habra as with a mantle can almost be seen growing, so rapidly has it been coming up. More grain will be harvested in this neighborhood than ever before. Last year to date we had 4.73 inches of rain. The enterprising citizens of Olive have voted $4,000 in bonds to build a school house. The Olive Milling company will donate a lot and furnish water free for two years. Henry Hildebrant of Los Angeles has brought the old Kellogg place at the corner of Los Angeles and Sycamore streets. He will renovate the place and move here with his family to reside. The rain came down in torrents on Saturday. The prophets were undecided as to whether the precipitation was caused by Cleveland's inauguration or by Alex Henry's cannonading in town in honor of the event. when you have started the "inflation spiral" under which the buyers insist that his pay go up because the prices of the things he days went up, upon which the seller or the grower insists upon higher prices because wages went up. There is no end to that spiral except collapse. Who suffers by inflation? Those who fixed incomes suffer first; the school teachers, the men and women on pensions and annuities; workers on salaries and onages which are not elastic enough to change with rising prices; all the great middle class in the nation. Next come the men and the women who work with their hands and who now have a fatal confidence that increases in their own pay scales will protect them. Somewhere in there the farmers take the blow, but they at least would still be eating temporarily, even though they would face a future of mass foreclosures and adjustment. What is the outcome? A communal system under which we better what we have for what the other fellow has? A complete collapse of the nation's financial integrity? The substitution of some alternate kind of currency as Germany substituted the Reichsmark, and the travel-mark, and the trade-mark, for the old mark? The collapse of the Republic and the substitution of some form of national socialism? Or the intelligent coordination NOW of the town methods to prevent, or at last control, inflation? The answers at the moment are: we will have to have the amount of inflation now evident. We need have no more. To say that the farmer is to be charged with inflation because he asks the price production, instead of an "initiative payment," which the Secretary says was simply a new item contrived to make it sound little better than "subsidy," is miss the point entirely. That inflation is already here; and to ask the farmer to stand in line for handout, instead of the honest mission that we missed the hat, and will try not to miss this one, is no cure. We can avoid an issue by evasion, or we can meet it squarely. Milk is to be pegged at an October price, then peg the constituent costs to correspond. If our aid is to be taken for guavule William Jerome was mingling with the crowd of boosters over from Santa Ana Wednesday evening to attend the associated meeting and banquet. Mr. Jerome is now county auditor and is looking after the political fences preparatory to the fall election sweepstakes. A. S. Bradford of Placentia, chairman of the committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce which prepared the prize winning exhibit at the Orange show, says it is probable Orange county would be asked to select a queen for the show next year, because of the fact that this county won the grand prize of $200 at the show this year. James Sleeper county assessor, was renewing old acquaintances here a few days ago. "Jim" bears the distinction of being the best assessor Orange county ever had, and has a walk-over for reelection. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Miller last week received another letter from their son Edwin, who is at the front in France. Edwin has been ill but is able to partially resume his duties again. While in the hospital, he writes, he was surprised to recognize in an inspecting officer who passed through, his old school-mate, Lieut. Lee Hatfield. R. E. Coffman has sold his fine ten-acre Valencia orange grove to Dan Marshall, former owner of the Anaheim bakery. The grove is located four miles west of Anaheim. The price is said to be between $10,000 and $15,000. Walter Mickle has in contemplation a trip to Alberta, Canada, returning by way of St. Paul. Walter's health has not been of the best for some time past and he believes the trip would do him good. William Schulte one of the oldest and best known residents of this section, died at his home on Orangethorpe Ave. yesterday. Funeral will be held Friday, interment in Anaheim cemetery. Frank Steadman left on Tuesday morning for Victorville in his newly purchased car. He was accompanied by his son Earl, Charley Carroll and Walt Koehler, has brought the old Kellogg place at the corner of Los Angeles and Sycamore streets. He will renovate the place and move here with his family to reside. The rain came down in torrents on Saturday. The prophets were undecided as to whether the precipitation was caused by Cleveland's inauguration or by Alex Henry's cannonading in town in honor of the event. Thomas Strain has received a letter from Allison Grey & Co., the San Francisco commission men, to the effect that a consignment of thirteen boxes of navel oranges shipped by him to them had been sold at $2.75 per box. This, the letter adds, is 25 cents per box higher than the price paid for Riverside oranges. The trees are three years old and the fruit is exceptionally bright and clean. Mr. Strain is to be congratulated upon the excellence of his oranges, which are truly representative of the high grade of Placentia fruit. There is no reason why our oranges, always as good if not better than the Riverside product, should not bring as high a price as any oranges in the market, and we hope to hear no more hereafter about our oranges renging lower than the best on the market. Alex Henry, T. A. Darling, Wm. Schumacher and several other enthusiastic Democrats, anxious to do honor to Inauguration Day, and to the names of Cleveland and Stevenson, started out at daybreak on Saturday in one of Alex's big wagons to whoop things up after the old-time fashion. They were provided with a drum corps, a fiddle and guitar, and last but not least, with Alex's young cannon, which makes a noise loud enough to be heard in the next county. With the stars and stripes aloft, they set out to serenade their friends, without respect to politics, and occasionally Alex would touch off the cannon and rouse up the soldiers ere the morning star, or words to the effect. The editorial ear was smote by delicious strains of music coming from the fiddle and guitar, after which the cannon thundered an encore, and then there was more music. The morning hours were thus spent in reminding all that the Democracy was in the saddle again, and good times ahead, and reform in the We can avoid an issue by evasion, or we can meet it squarely. Milk is to be pegged at an October price, then peg the constituent costs to correspond. If our aid is to be taken for guayule instead of food, then let us understand that in the war picture guayule is the more important on hand specially and exclusively adapted to the other products. If we are told we will have machines to harvest wheat, or flax, and the machines are not even being made in the factories, then we know that this is due to their necessities, and not merely, it would otherwise seem, to a lack of coordination, and to the lingling of youthful and inexperienced administrators in jobs upon which the food of the nation depends. Then let us, if possible, unoff some of this excess living power, either to pay the bills of the war, or to be set aside for future needs. Three members of the Californian delegation finally got a hearing with the President on the most important result, other than his immediate interest, was his statement that he had had no previous personal knowledge of its seriousness. The administrators had come direct from the White House. I am to remark that the word most needed in Washington today, if we are to avoid further scarcity and inflation, is Coordination. William Schulte one of the oldest and best known residents of this section, died at his home on Orangethorpe Ave. yesterday. Funeral will be held Friday, interment in Anaheim cemetery. Frank Steadman left on Tuesday morning for Victorville in his newly purchased car. He was accompanied by his son Earl, Charley Carroll and Walt Koehler, who returned last evening. Frank will take up the work of assessing property in the Victor valley irrigation district and will be absent several weeks. Finis has been written at the end of the last chapter in the career of Rosario Saiz, the noted desperado. Word was received by his step father in this city last week that he had died in San Quentin penitentiary. Saiz, a native of this city, was one of the worst desperados this section of the county ever produced. Some years ago he was convicted of killing a Mexican sheep herder in the camp of Santos Carrisosa. He was sentenced to be hanged, but received a new trial which resulted in a sentence of life imprisonment. Before being taken to prison he made a spectacular escape by overpowering Sheriff Lacy, taking possession of his keys, and locking the sheriff in his cell. Saiz fled to Mexico, where he continued his lawless career. He was finally located by Sheriff Ruddock at Ensenada. Extradition papers were secured and he was returned to California and finally landed at San Quentin. Fred Betts, manager of the Duffel orange tract in Placentia was a business visitor in town on Saturday. Fred looks forward to a prosperous season. John Bush of Olive, while shooting quail in the neighborhood of Perris one day last week, met with a very bad accident with the bursting of his gun. The thumb and forefinger were almost severed from his hand, and the palm was considerably lacerated. He received medical assistance at Perris and is now at his home getting along as well as could be expected. Doc (Edgar) Johnson of the Orange County Tribune was in town on Tuesday on a short visit. Doc rode up from San Diego with Bill Nye, and says he found him to be a very jolly and bald headed little cuss. Frank E. Gardiner and Miss Annie Holcomb were married at Fullerton on Tuesday evening. Rev. F. R. Holcomb, father of the bride, officiating. We join the many friends of the happy couple in wishing them a long life of happiness. A pleasant surprise party was given the Misses Dora and Minnie Zeyn at their home on Monday evening, when a very pleasant time was enjoyed by all.